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Goal of the tournament so far?

Textbook dinkage

It was met with a fairly muted response, as, by that time, the Italians were firmly out of World Cup 2010 and mentally making plans on what to do for the rest of the summer, but Fabio Quagliarella‘s unbelievably composed, perfectly weighted chip against Slovakia HAS to be the best demonstration we’ve seen so far of a football player mastering the oh-so-evil Jabulani.

After the jump, two more of yesterday’s best goals – Japan’s brilliant free-kick one-two past a hapless Thomas Sorensen.